NNA - "Russia Today" quoted the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights as saying that 3 mass graves were found in the village of al-Qabou in the Homs countryside, and the remains of 20 unidentified people were recovered, who were likely arrested or forcibly disappeared in previous periods.

On December 23, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the discovery of a mass grave in the city of Homs containing more than 1,200 bodies, who were likely arrested in previous periods during Bashar al-Assad's rule, and their identities have not been determined yet. According to available information, the bodies were brought from Homs Military Hospital to be buried in the city of Homs.

The total number of mass graves discovered according to the documentation of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights since the fall of Bashar al-Assad has reached 9 mass graves containing the remains of 1,475 victims, distributed as follows:

- Two mass graves in Daraa: 127 bodies were found in them

- 3 mass graves in the Damascus countryside containing the remains of 128 bodies

- 4 cemeteries in Homs containing the remains of 1,220 bodies.

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